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H1N1 sample yet to reach RMRC
Dimapur, August 30 (MExN): The suspected H1N1 sample from Kohima which was sent last Wednesday, August 26, is yet to reach the RMRC in Dibrugarh. As to the delay, State Nodal Officer of the IDSP, Dr. Kevichusa Medikhru when contacted said the agency through which the sample was sent could not be contacted. He said that the sample has reached Guwahati and may yet to be dispatched from there. Following a certain private courier agency?s refusal to convey H1N1 samples, the IDSP was compelled to send the suspected H1N1 throat swab sample through EMS ?Speed Post?. The nodal officer was not sure when it would reach RMRC but said it might reach on Monday, August 31.
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Shillong hospital nurse dies of flu
Raju Das
SHILLONG, Aug 27 ? Swine flu, though indirectly, claimed its first victim in Meghalaya after a staff nurse from the Shillong Civil Hospital died after being administered a heady dose of Tamiflu and typhoid drugs for several days on suspicion of contracting H1N1 virus.
The deceased Mary Lyngdoh, the staff nurse from the hospital, was kept in the isolation ward from August 18 on suspicion of contracting H1N1 virus. On August 19 her blood test revealed she was suffering from typhoid and accordingly she was being treated.
However, the hospital authorities also sent her swab samples to National Institute for Cholera and Enteric Disease (NICED), Kolkata on August 19. Two days later, with her condition not improving the doctors prescribed Tamiflu.
During this period, the swab sample of Lyngdoh was wrongly despatched to a hospital in Kohima, Nagaland by a private courier company. Finally, the test result which reached NICED returned here on August 25 confirmed Lyngdoh was not suffering from the H1N1 virus.
Sadly, on Wednesday, Lyngdoh passed away after the cocktail of drugs administered by the hospital authorities took its toll and the delay in receiving the test result. ?Anyone can be given Tamiflu. It?s as per Central Government guidelines,? Dr AK Das, superintendent of the hospital told The Assam Tribune.
Asked if Tamiflu has side-effects, Das veered away from the question and said, ?Specialists were consulted before administering Tamiflu on Lyngdoh. Her condition was not improving, so we administered Tamiflu based on the suggestion of Dr. AMR Diengdoh (specialist) before we received the test result,? Das said.
Diengdoh on being contacted refused to speak and said he has sent his report to the office of Director of Health Services which is overseeing the control of the disease in the State after six persons tested positive of the virus.
?The report has been sent to the DHS with regards to the case,? Dr. Diengdoh said. The officials from the DHS, however, did not return phone calls after several attempts.
Dimapur, August 30 (MExN): The suspected H1N1 sample from Kohima which was sent last Wednesday, August 26, is yet to reach the RMRC in Dibrugarh. As to the delay, State Nodal Officer of the IDSP, Dr. Kevichusa Medikhru when contacted said the agency through which the sample was sent could not be contacted. He said that the sample has reached Guwahati and may yet to be dispatched from there. Following a certain private courier agency?s refusal to convey H1N1 samples, the IDSP was compelled to send the suspected H1N1 throat swab sample through EMS ?Speed Post?. The nodal officer was not sure when it would reach RMRC but said it might reach on Monday, August 31.
and;
Shillong hospital nurse dies of flu
Raju Das
SHILLONG, Aug 27 ? Swine flu, though indirectly, claimed its first victim in Meghalaya after a staff nurse from the Shillong Civil Hospital died after being administered a heady dose of Tamiflu and typhoid drugs for several days on suspicion of contracting H1N1 virus.
The deceased Mary Lyngdoh, the staff nurse from the hospital, was kept in the isolation ward from August 18 on suspicion of contracting H1N1 virus. On August 19 her blood test revealed she was suffering from typhoid and accordingly she was being treated.
However, the hospital authorities also sent her swab samples to National Institute for Cholera and Enteric Disease (NICED), Kolkata on August 19. Two days later, with her condition not improving the doctors prescribed Tamiflu.
During this period, the swab sample of Lyngdoh was wrongly despatched to a hospital in Kohima, Nagaland by a private courier company. Finally, the test result which reached NICED returned here on August 25 confirmed Lyngdoh was not suffering from the H1N1 virus.
Sadly, on Wednesday, Lyngdoh passed away after the cocktail of drugs administered by the hospital authorities took its toll and the delay in receiving the test result. ?Anyone can be given Tamiflu. It?s as per Central Government guidelines,? Dr AK Das, superintendent of the hospital told The Assam Tribune.
Asked if Tamiflu has side-effects, Das veered away from the question and said, ?Specialists were consulted before administering Tamiflu on Lyngdoh. Her condition was not improving, so we administered Tamiflu based on the suggestion of Dr. AMR Diengdoh (specialist) before we received the test result,? Das said.
Diengdoh on being contacted refused to speak and said he has sent his report to the office of Director of Health Services which is overseeing the control of the disease in the State after six persons tested positive of the virus.
?The report has been sent to the DHS with regards to the case,? Dr. Diengdoh said. The officials from the DHS, however, did not return phone calls after several attempts.
